European Notebooks

New Societies and Old Politics, 1954-1985

Francois Bondy, Roland Vogt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138509801
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351322188
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

A generation of outstanding European thinkers emerged out of the rubble of World War II. It was a group unparalleled in their probing of an age that had produced totalitarianism as a political norm, and the Holocaust as its supreme nightmarish achievement. Figures ranging from George Lichtheim, Ignazio Silone, Raymond Aron, Andrei Amalrik, among many others, found a home in Encounter. None stood taller or saw further than François Bondy of Zurich.In a moving tribute to his friend, Melvin J. Lasky, long- time editor of Encounter, writes, "Bondy was a breathtaking spectacle. I had known him to read and walk, to think and talk, all at once--and still make mental notes for his next article.... Early or late, seated or standing, awake or asleep, his incomparable spiritedness would always be darting from point to point, paying attention and idly wandering at once. Taken all in all, he still continues to represent for me perhaps a Henry Jamesian New Man."Bondy's essays themselves represent a broad sweep of major figures and events in the second half of the twentieth century. His spatial outreach went from Budapest to Tokyo and Paris. His political essays extended from George Kennan to Benito Mussolini. And his prime mÚtier, the cultural figures of Europe, covered Sartre, Kafka, Heidegger and Milosz. The analysis was uniformly fair minded but unstinting in its insights. Taken together, the variegated themes he raised in his work as a Zurich journalist, a Paris editor, and a European homme de letres sketch guidelines for an entrancing portrait of the intellectual as cosmopolitan.European Notebooks contains most of the articles that Bondy (1915-2003) wrote for Encounter under the stewardship of Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, and then for the thirty years that Melvin Lasky served as editor. Bondy was that rare unattached intellectual, "free of every totalitarian temptation" and, as Lasky notes, unfailing in his devotion to the liberties and civilities of a humane social order. European Notebooks offers a window into a civilization that came to maturity during the period in which these essays were written.

Index

Abasino, Alberto, 261

Abetz, Otto, 240

Achard, Marcel, 95

Acheson, Dean, 31

Adenauer, Konrad, 31

Akhmatova, Anna, 193

Aksyonov, Vasili, 333

Alberti, Rafael, 22

Algren, Nelson, 69, 76

Alleman, F.R., 32

Allende, Salvator, 271

Althusser, Louis, 352

Amalrik, Andrei, 187–189, 193–194

Amendola, Giorgio, 159, 161

Amery, Jean, 293

Andreu, Pierre, 239

Andropov, Yuri, 331

Anouilh, Jean, 95

Aragon, Louis, 144, 162, 164–166, 239, 240

Ardagh, John, 103

Ardizone, Flora, 224

Arenas, Reinaldo, 314

Arenguren, J.L., 23

Aron, Raymond, xiii, 143, 182, 183, 326, 334, 335, 348, 349–356

Artajo, Martin, 19, 23

Artaud, Antonin, 269

Astor, David, 288

Autant-Lara, Claude, 53

Aymé, Marcel, 95

Azaña, Manuel, 22

Babel, Isaac, 59

Bacher, Gerd, 283

Bahr, Egon, 334

Baldwin, James, 136, 148

Balzac, Honoré de, 9, 93, 230, 295

Banti, Anna, 131

Barbey d'Auurevilly, Jules, 292

Barbie, Klaus, 299

Barlach, Ernst, 61

Baroja, Pio, 16–17

Barre, Raymond, 267

Barrés, Maurice, 119

Barthes, Roland, 176, 177

Bartoli, Domenico, 272–274

Baruch, Bernard, 237

Bataille, Georges, 52, 218

Baudelaire, Charles, 93, 249, 323

Beaumont, Jean-Louis, 258

Beauvoir, Simone de, 68–76, 140, 176, 177, 285–287, 315, 316, 349

Beckett, Samuel, 64, 144, 294

Bell, Daniel, 350

Bellow, Saul, xii

Ben Bella, Ahmed, 136

Ben Gurion, David, 40

Beneš, Eduar...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Part The 1950s
• A Moment in Budapest
• "Asia": Does It Exist?
• Paris on the Psychoanalyst's Couch
• Young Spain and the Old Régime
• The Sick Man of Europe is...Europe: Thoughts after Kennan
• Part The 1960s
• Letter from Jerusalem: On Misunderstanding Eichmann
• Letter from Berlin: The Pilloried Pope
• Letter from Paris: The New Puritans
• The Struggle for Kafka and Joyce: A Conversation between Hans Mayer and François Bondy
• Notes on a Lady Mandarin
• Letter from Prague: The Empty Pedestal
• Letter from Paris: The Forty Immortal Chairs
• Letter from Paris: Decline of the French Left
• Part The 1970s
• Letter from Paris: The Idiot, or Sartre's Flaubert
• D'Annunzio and Mussolini: New Letters
• Letter from France: New Society, Old Politics
• Letter from Rome: Italy's "Cultural Crisis"
• Frantz Fanon: "Black Orpheus" of the Homeless Left
• Letter from Paris: As Sartre Grows Old
• Letter from Zurich: "What Thinketh Solzhenitsyn?"
• The Quest for Serendip
• "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" —The New Left Today
• Ignazio Silone at 75
• European Notebook: What's Left
• European Notebook: Arguing about Fascism
• European Notebook: Giants on the French Left: Thorez and Aragon
• European Notebook: Porn-O; A New Prince?; Régis Debray's Novel
• European Notebook: On the Death of Pasolini
• European Notebook: Le Monde; Italian Censorship; Solzhenitsyn and Spain
• European Notebook: Telos
• European Notebook: Heidegger; Amalrik
• European Notebook: Doris Kearns and Lyndon Johnson; Polish Democracy; Andrey Amalrik
• European Notebook: Miracle in Milan
• European Notebook: Dictatorships and the EEC; Religion in America; French Elections
• European Notebook: Budapest's "October"; The Two Cultures; Nathalie Sarraute
• European Notebook: Le Canard Enchaîné; Murder in Rome
• European Notebook: Alain Peyrefitte; Death of Prince de Broglie
• European Notebook: Boris Souvarine; "Gambizzazzione"; ''Execution" in Turin; On the French Left
• Prize Winners
• Between Frost and Thaw
• Terror Targets
• Part The 1980s
• European Diary: The Line of Non-Alignment
• European Diary: The Very Latest from Paris
• European Diary: The Veterans
• European Diary: How to Relax in the Cold War
• European Diary: The Comeback of Drieu La Rochelle
• European Diary: Of Passing Scandals
• European Diary: "Russian" (Good), "Soviet" (Bad)...
• Mauriac, between Province and Paris
• European Diary: Milosz, the Unknown
• J-J S-S Rides Again
• European Diary: Incident in Vitry; "Terza Pagina"; Exit This Way
• European Diary: French Ideology
• European Diary: The Very Latest from Paris
• European Diary: The Very Latest from Paris
• European Diary: On the Death of a Friend: Romain Gary
• European Diary: The Very Latest from Paris
• European Diary: Where is Prussia?; In the Vienna Woods
• European Diary: Ceremonial Farewell; The Lowenthal Paper
• Thinking about Flaubert
• European Diary: Mosques in the Factory; "1983"; News of the Day; Wajda's Danton
• European Diary: Boomerangs?; The Trial Begins; Germans Among Themselves; Latin Learners
• European Diary: More Sartriana; Kisielewski and Warsaw; Genet's Comeback; Bettino Craxi
• Manes Sperber
• European Diary: Words, Phrases, Conceits; Of the Once and Future Leader; German Illusions; Remembering Wroclaw
• Sherlock Holmes and Socialist Realism
• Kultura's Achievement
• The Crown Jurist: The Death of Carl Schmitt
• Raymond Aron
• Index